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  Long Beach CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2022 Satellite launch company Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB) announces today that a joint mission between the United Kingdom's Defense Science and Technology Laboratory and the United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is expected to be lofted on the first space launch out of Spaceport Cornwall later this year. The government agencies' joint Coordinated Ionospheric Reconstruction CubeSat Experiment (CIRCE) is supported by the U.S. Department of Defense's Space Test Program (STP), which is organized un ... read more |
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NRL CIRCE spacecraft to be part of historic UK launchWashington DC (SPX) Jun 08, 2022 A joint U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)/ U.K. Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) experiment is preparing to measure Earth's ionosphere and particle radiation environment as part o ... more 
CIRCE space weather suite announced for first UK satellite launchLondon, UK (SPX) Jun 08, 2022 The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory's (Dstl) miniaturised space weather instrumentation suite will be one of the payloads aboard Virgin Orbit which is targeting the first UK satellite laun ... more  
Shenzhou XIV astronauts transporting supplies into space stationBeijing (XNA) Jun 07, 2022 Crew members of the Shenzhou XIV spaceflight have begun to transport living and mission supplies to the Tiangong space station, according to the China Manned Space Agency. The agency said in a ... more 
NASA rolls SLS moon rocket back out to Kennedy Space Center launch padWashington DC (UPI) Jun 07, 2022 NASA's Space Launch System moon rocket reached the launching pad at Kenndy Space Center in Florida Monday morning after its slow-rolling 4.2-mile hike. The tr ... more |
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Subscale booster motor for future Artemis missions fires up at MarshallHuntsville AL (SPX) Jun 06, 2022 Engineers successfully fired a 2-foot-diameter, subscale solid rocket booster June 1, 2022, at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The test, conducted in Marshall's Eas ... more 
China sends three astronauts to Tiangong Space StationWashington DC (UPI) Jun 05, 2022 China on Sunday successfully launched a manned mission to its Tiangong Space Station. The three-person crew launched on the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft from the Jiquan Satellite Launch Center in th ... more 
China discloses tasks of Shenzhou-14 crewed space missionJiuquan (XNA) Jun 06, 2022 The upcoming Shenzhou-14 crewed space mission will complete the construction of the Tiangong space station, with a basic three-module structure consisting of the core module Tianhe and the lab modul ... more 
Three Chinese astronauts arrive at space stationBeijing (AFP) June 5, 2022 Three Chinese astronauts arrived at the country's space station on Sunday, the Chinese space agency for human flights said, the latest stride in Beijing's aim to become a major space power. ... more |
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China sends three astronauts to complete space stationBeijing (AFP) June 5, 2022 China on Sunday launched a rocket carrying three astronauts on a mission to complete construction on its new space station, the latest milestone in Beijing's drive to become a major space power. ... more 
Ursa Major announces new engine to replace unavailable Russian-made enginesDenver CO (SPX) Jun 02, 2022 Ursa Major, America's only privately funded company that focuses solely on rocket propulsion, has introduced the latest in its line of engines. Arroway is a 200,000-pound thrust liquid oxygen and me ... more 
Southern Launch receives further Government fundingAdelaide, Australia (SPX) May 31, 2022 Australian spaceport and space mission provider, Southern Launch, has been awarded an Australian Space Agency Moon to Mars Grant for their mobile launch rail. The almost $1 million grant will ... more 
China's space tracking ship departs for 100th missionNanjing (XNA) May 29, 2022 China's space tracking ship Yuanwang-3 Thursday set sail for its first voyage this year from a port in east China's Jiangsu Province. The vessel will carry out its 100th maritime mission during this ... more |
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Debris from Chinese rocket reenters atmosphere, mostly burning upBeijing (XNA) May 27, 2022 Debris from the last stage of the Long March-7 Y5 carrier rocket reentered the atmosphere at 5:34 p.m. on Wednesday (Beijing Time), the China Manned Space Agency said. The vast majority of the ... more 
Upper Stage Propulsion System for future Artemis mission reaches major milestoneDecatur AL (SPX) May 26, 2022 While the Artemis I team prepares for its upcoming mission, NASA and contractor teams are already building rockets to support future Artemis Moon missions. In United Launch Alliance's (ULA) factory ... more 
SpaceX's Transporter 5 launches with remains of 47 people for 'space burial'Cape Canaveral FL (UPI) May 26, 2022 SpaceX launched its 22nd rocket of the year on Wednesday, the Transporter-5 rideshare mission, which included carrying 47 people's cremated remains for a burial in space. The send off, designe ... more 
Researchers start planting space-bred seeds returned by Shenzhou-13Beijing (XNA) May 25, 2022 Chinese researchers have commenced breeding experiments on 12,000 seeds that were bred inside the Shenzhou-13 crewed spaceship in space for six months. The seeds, including alfalfa, oats and f ... more 
UK company reveals micro-launcher rocketLondon, UK (SPX) May 24, 2022 Orbex's Prime rocket reaching technical readiness represents a significant achievement that brings together key elements of the ground infrastructure and prototype launch vehicle for the first time ... more |
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 Mamoa HI (SPX) Jun 03, 2022 
How do you choose a rock on Mars? Sometimes you don't- it chooses you. For the past 4 months, Perseverance has had an unexpected traveling companion. Back on sol 341- that's over 100 sols ago, in early February- a rock found its way into the rover's front left wheel, and since hitching a ride, it's been transported more than 5.3 miles (8.5 km). This rock isn't doing any damage to the wheel, but ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 03, 2022 
Adding to the growing list of commercial deliveries slated to explore more of the Moon than ever before under Artemis, NASA has selected two new science instrument suites, including one that will study the mysterious Gruithuisen Domes for the first time.
These payload suites mark the second selection through the agency's Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (PRIS ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 08, 2022 
The agency's mission to explore Jupiter's icy moon takes a big step forward as engineers deliver a major component of the spacecraft.
The main body of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has been delivered to the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Over the next two years there, engineers and technicians will finish assembling the craft by hand before testing it to make ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Jun 07, 2022  With its mirror segments beautifully aligned and its scientific instruments undergoing calibration, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is just weeks away from full operation. Soon after the first observations are revealed this summer, Webb's in-depth science will begin.
Among the investigations planned for the first year are studies of two hot exoplanets cla ... more |
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 Long Beach CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2022 
Satellite launch company Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB) announces today that a joint mission between the United Kingdom's Defense Science and Technology Laboratory and the United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is expected to be lofted on the first space launch out of Spaceport Cornwall later this year.
The government agencies' joint Coordinated Ionospheric Reconstruction CubeSat Exper ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) June 5, 2022 
Three Chinese astronauts arrived at the country's space station on Sunday, the Chinese space agency for human flights said, the latest stride in Beijing's aim to become a major space power.
The trio blasted off in a Long March-2F rocket at 0244 GMT from the Jiuquan launch centre in northwestern China's Gobi desert, reported state broadcaster CCTV.
The team is tasked with "completing in-o ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 01, 2022 
Watching the skies for large asteroids that could pose a hazard to the Earth is a global endeavor. So, to test their operational readiness, the international planetary defense community will sometimes use a real asteroid's close approach as a mock encounter with a "new" potentially hazardous asteroid. The lessons learned could limit, or even prevent, global devastation should the scenario play o ... more |
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 Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) May 26, 2022 
The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Directed Energy Directorate recently signed a five-year Strategic Education Partnership Agreement (EPA) with New Mexico State University (NMSU) in Las Cruces that extends the loan of a laser diode system NMSU will use in testing novel cooling solutions for directed energy laser and high power microwave systems.
"Heat is one of the major bottlenec ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) May 19, 2022 
Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday his country bought Iskander nuclear-capable missiles and S-400 anti-aircraft anti-missile systems from Russia.
The announcement came on the 85th day of Russia's military campaign in Ukraine, with thousands killed. Belarus, Moscow's main ally, has allowed Russian troops to use the country bordering Ukraine as a rear base.
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Apr 26, 2022 
Saturn's moon Titan looks very much like Earth from space, with rivers, lakes, and seas filled by rain tumbling through a thick atmosphere. While these landscapes may look familiar, they are composed of materials that are undoubtedly different - liquid methane streams streak Titan's icy surface and nitrogen winds build hydrocarbon sand dunes.
The presence of these materials - whose mechani ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) May 18, 2022 
Scientists have demonstrated a new material that conducts heat 150% more efficiently than conventional materials used in advanced chip technologies. The device - an ultrathin silicon nanowire - could enable smaller, faster microelectronics with a heat-transfer-efficiency that surpasses current technologies.
Electronic devices powered by microchips that efficiently dissipate heat would in t ... more |
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 Amsterdam. Netherlands (SPX) Jun 08, 2022 
Clouds of ultralight particles can form around rotating black holes. A team of physicists from the University of Amsterdam and Harvard University now show that these clouds would leave a characteristic imprint on the gravitational waves emitted by binary black holes.
Black holes are generally thought to swallow all forms of matter and energy surrounding them. It has long been known, howeve ... more |
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 Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Jun 07, 2022 
Quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is a state of matter existing at extremely temperatures and densities, such as those that occur in collisions of hadrons (protons, neutrons and mesons). Under so-called "normal" conditions, quarks and gluons are always confined in the structures that constitute hadrons, but when hadrons are accelerated to relativistic velocities and made to collide with each other, as th ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Jun 06, 2022 
Mimicking the human body, specifically the actuators that control muscle movement, is of immense interest around the globe. In recent years, it has led to many innovations to improve robotics, prosthetic limbs and more, but creating these actuators typically involves complex processes, with expensive and hard-to-find materials.
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Penn Stat ... more |
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 Ventura CA (SPX) Jun 07, 2022 
Mayman Aerospace unveiled a flight-ready prototype of its Speeder Air Utility Vehicle (AUV) at this year's annual Draper Venture Network CEO Summit in northern California. The debut appearance of the P2 Speeder, an aviation disrupting aircraft, represents a significant milestone for the compact, multi-use vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicle. Boasting eight jet engines, the aircraft gener ... more |
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